Review: - July Full Council 2025
Pompey Politics Podcast
Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris
5 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
We review Portsmouth City Council’s meeting of the Full Council July 15th 2025 - what were the big items on the agenda? Which were controversial ? Where was there harmony? Where was there heated debate?
In this meeting the council discussed:-
🗳️ an update on the government's Local Government Reorganisation and what that means for Portsmouth.
🏢 The planning squeeze on Portsmouth as it's forced to allow the building of more and more homes
💨Improving air quality in the city
🌊 Is the council reacting fast enough to the threat of the climate emergency?
👨🦽➡️The lack of disability accessible equipment and the city's play parks.
🏘️The unintended consequences of 'lawful development certificates' - and how this could increase HMO developments
🚬Tackling rogue traders selling illegal tobacco & vapes
💩 Southern Water - will massive increases in bills result in massive reductions in sewage pollution in our area?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Pompey Politics podcast, the podcast where we discuss matters of |
| 0:06.2 | international, national and local importance in the political world in a calm, measured, sensible |
| 0:12.7 | and reasonable way. I'm Ian Tiny Morris. And I'll be sensible and reasonable to, and I'm |
| 0:19.8 | Simon Sainsbury. Evening him? Ah, we are nearly there. It's got a little end of term feel. Did you bring in hungry, hungry hippos or some such? It's our last show before we take the summer off. Yeah, indeed. We'll do this one and then we'll um we'll we'll we'll bow for the we'll bow for the |
| 0:42.5 | summer season and come back at some point in the autumn um and uh you know maybe some stuff will |
| 0:49.1 | happen in the meantime that'll give us something to talk about maybe when we come back we can |
| 0:52.6 | have a conversation about 16 yearyear-olds getting the ballot |
| 0:55.8 | or other things that have probably wound you up. |
| 0:59.3 | Yeah, yeah, no. |
| 1:00.1 | No, I always think it's good to raise these things early. |
| 1:04.0 | But our focus this evening is on our local matters. |
| 1:07.4 | As Tuesday was first full council for a couple of months and um we always know when |
| 1:13.0 | the agenda comes out we have a quick skim through it and and make our decision as to whether |
| 1:18.3 | it's it's pantomime season come early or whether there's there's there's going to be some |
| 1:24.4 | stuff for us to get our teeth into it was a it was a act agenda, so I guess we ought to be cracking on. |
| 1:32.3 | Yeah, indeed. |
| 1:33.1 | Well, there was quite a lot on the agenda for today. |
| 1:36.9 | Sorry, for Tuesday. |
| 1:38.5 | But there were also quite a few public deputations. |
| 1:42.3 | So we're going to try and go through the agenda in in |
| 1:46.6 | chronological order or in the order that's on that's on the order sheet. So and if |
| 1:52.8 | anybody wants to, wants to follow along with with the agenda items, then by all means do, you can follow that from the link that |
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